Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CUSTOMS ACT 1901 - SECT 5

    The penalty, pecuniary or other, set out:

  (a)   at the foot of a section of this Act; or

  (b)   at the foot of a subsection of a section of this Act, but not at the foot of the section;

indicates that a contravention of the section or of the subsection, as the case may be, whether by act or omission, is an offence against this Act, punishable upon conviction by a penalty not exceeding the penalty so set out.